Digital Design: Principles and Practices Package (4th Edition)

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Excellent Book.......2006-03-15

I bought this book for my Intro to Digital Circuits course. So, far, I have found this book highly useful. Its contents are easy to understand and it has a lot of examples to explain any particular content in detail. This book is self-explanatory. Even if I miss my class one day, I don't have much trouble catching up as long as I have this book.

Review of Digital Design Principles and Practices by John F. Wakerly.......2006-02-03

The book came to me severly damaged before it was even packaged. The first 313 pages were severly gouged out of the bottom pages about 1/4" deep x 1/2" x 1/2" (inches), close to the spine. I did not have time to return it because my course started Jan. 10, 2006 and the Delivery estimate was: January 6, 2006 - January 10, 2006.

I am very disappointed with this product and purchase.

A Good Reference.......2005-09-21

First and foremost, this book is definitely not a good introductory course book. It is a reference book because of how it covers the conceptual material.

This book provides an extreme amount of detail in the many aspects of the field. If you have basic knowledge of circuitry, you should be fine in understanding this book. If you do not have any experience at all, however, this book will be difficult to manage.

On the positive side, as a reference, this book is superior. The book starts with introductory concepts such as working with number systems and how to perform arithmetic (simple and complex) in binary. I was confused by the placement of Chapter 3. Immediately following number systems, the author jumps to electrical behavior and layout of transistors to comprise CMOS logic. While a necessary topic, I felt that it could have been delayed to a future chapter.

Afterward, standard topics are covered amidst advanced topics. I felt it would have been easier for the reader to master the simple, ideal designs before having to worry about timing characteristics and other non-ideal concepts.

The book discusses simple logic gates all the way through sequential logic design, which is a nice touch. It is good to have all of the material in this book in one place and definitely recommend the book to anyone in logic design. While not the most advanced book, its wide array of topics and coverage will help to fill in the gaps that other books create.

A Book Where Brain, Knowledge and Sense of Humor Meet.......2005-03-19

This book was the reason i enjoyed my undergrad logic design class (which used another [bad] textbook): this is a strong book with strong explanations, thinking reasonings, nice examples, thorough VHDL and Verilog sections, lots of 'real-world' information. The author is precise, logical, goes deep but very straightforward, and funny (!). Where our textbook had gabs, where my professor's lectures were vague, where all other explanations seemed cheesy to me - Wakerly just filled me up.

Excellent.......2004-08-06

Reading through the reviews that are available as I'm composing this post, I note that all of the foreign readers give it 5 stars, and all the bad reviews come from America. Also, I note a whiney tone in most of the bad reviews. I found the book to be excellent.

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It's not just bad, it's terrible.
Not Worth $100 Maybe $20
A nice intro. to digital design
Not that great
plain and simple.......that's the way

Principles of Digital Design
Daniel D. Gajski
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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It's not just bad, it's terrible........2006-12-03

This book is just a mess. It doesn't explain a list of concepts per every chapter and what it does discuss is just hard to follow. There are too many typos in the Exercise section and even some example problems are incorrect. Then you go to check the back of the book for answers and you won't find any. So you're essentially stuck with a crappy material that is faulty in the explanation of concepts and that won't let you even check your work. As the other reviewer pointed out, the money was clearly spent on making the book look good rather than trying to proof-read it and focus on the content.

Not Worth $100 Maybe $20.......2002-09-19

Much Errata in this book. Many concepts are just not explained in terms that can be understood. More effort was spent on marketing and cover design then content and proof reading.

A nice intro. to digital design.......2001-02-17

This book is very suitable for a 10 week intro. course to digital design. In fact, the author wrote the book with this in mind, since he teaches ICS 151 at UC Irvine which is a 10 week introductory course on the subject. As an instructor, I was thankful that the book came with transparency templates and a solutions manual (although the publisher does not sell it to students). Using this book is also advantageous for the computer science major who needs a solid foundation in digital design for learning computer architecture, but does not need to be overburdened by an indepth analysis of issues such as timing, hazard-free designs, etc. (although these subjects are discussed, but not in much detail). Moreover, the final chapter discusses design and synthesis issues for developing a cpu. Thus, this book is very appropriate for computer scientists and computer engineers...but may be not the best book for a design engineer who may need a reference with more information.

Not that great.......2000-07-11

This book doesn't have the greatest examples for the students. It also lacks a solutions manual. Not worth a 100 bucks to say the least.

plain and simple.......that's the way.......1999-12-20

However, students need the solutions manual to help them understand and master these "principles."

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Good book covering core features of hardware

Principles of Computer Hardware
Alan Clements
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Computer technology pervades almost every aspect of our life: from the cars that we drive, to the mobile phones that we use to communicate; from the digital cameras that capture images of the world around us, to the laser printers that turn image into picture. Yet at the heart of these enabling technologies lie fundamental components and systems, without the understanding of which such technologies would never have been developed. Principles of Computer Hardware explores the fundamentals of computer structure, architecture, and programming that underpin the array of computerized technologies around which our lives are now built. The book opens with an introduction to the fundamental concepts upon which computers are constructed - gates, circuits, logic - and computer arithmetic, the 'language' through which computers communicate. It then reveals how computers are structured and how they operate, taking us step-wise from the instruction set architecture, the bringing together of instructions through assembly language programming, and on to the heart of the computer, the central processing unit. The book then builds on these foundations to consider how the hardware interfaces with its surroundings, introducing us to topics such as computer memory; operating systems and the interface between hardware and software; and computer peripherals and computer communications - the interface with the outside world. Always putting educational value first, Principles of Computer Hardware uses the 68K processor as a powerful teaching and learning tool, putting substance firmly before style. With the clarity of explanation and captivating style for which Alan Clements is renowned, the book draws the student in to the heart of the subject, to foster an in-depth understanding from which more specialised study can then extend. The learning experience is enriched still further with a free CD-ROM, providing resources to enable students to engage with the subject in a hands-on manner: DT A Windows-based simulator for the student to explore the design of digital circuits DT Windows and DOS-based 68K simulators for students to investigate the operation of the 68K processor DT An ARM simulator for students to write programs for a RISC processor, and run them on a PC Online Resource Centre: For lecturers (password protected): DT Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation DT Solutions to problems featured in the book, to aid formative learning DT Multiple choice question test bank, to facilitate assessment of students' learning

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Good book covering core features of hardware.......2000-02-11

This is the textbook used in a computer hardware class I have taken - its a good read and has some clear explanations and good illustrated examples of the ideas - found several errors and typos in the logic diagrams and am not sure if their outlined in a errata supplement. some of the technology seems to be a bit dated in the later chapters, but the ideas still hold.- Overall a good introductory text book.

Digital Systems: Principles and Applications

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Used 5th edition in Digital Elec class
Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !
Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !
Good for first year EECS program.
Best of its kind

Digital Systems: Principles and Applications
Ronald J. Tocci , and Neal S. Widmer
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Tocci and Widmer use a block diagram approach to basic logic operations, enabling readers to have a firm understanding of logic principles before they study the electrical characteristics of the logic ICs. KEY TOPICS For each new device or circuit, the authors describe the principle of the operation, give thorough examples, and then show its actual application. An excellent reference on modern digital systems.

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Used 5th edition in Digital Elec class.......2006-09-06

My professor used the 5th edition in the Digital Elec class many years ago. I write software but have been trying to make the transition to logic design ... picked up the latest edition for refresher

Great book

Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !.......2006-04-25

This is the best book to understand Digital Electronics with clear and simple explanations. The salient feature of this book is that it has lot of applications sprayed throughout which keeps the reader attentive and interested. A "Must Read" for graduate/undergraduate students in any university in the world.

Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !.......2006-04-25

Good for first year EECS program........2004-02-24

You can gain the basic digital logic design knowledge using this book in no time! that is not always sufficient for people who wants to get A grade rather you can just make it your introduction and so soon move to part two (that is up to your current course).
My advice is : get this book unless you have passed this level!

Best of its kind.......2003-02-09

I used this book for a course on Digital Electronics. Its great. The book has a great typeset, clear and crisp fonts that go easy on the eyes, well structured (such that you read what you need in order to understand the next chapter). The book is illustrated with apt diagrams. I would consider this book to be beginner-intermediate. This book is a good starting point for learn digital stuff, and a good reference after you learn digital stuff. Its hard to find a book as good as this one.

Digital Principles and Design with CD-ROM

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Wastage of paper and ink
An Excellent Reference Book
Impressions of Digital Principles and Design

Digital Principles and Design with CD-ROM
Donald D. Givone
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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This exciting first edition provides more depth than existing digital design books, using a traditional approach to the subject. Digital Principles and Design contains introductory material in digital principles with emphasis on logic design, as well as more advanced material. With the exception of the digital circuits appendix, it assumes no background on the part of the reader. The text can be used by readers in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering.

The emphasis in the book is on the thorough presentation of basic principles of logic design and the illustration of these principles. While many introductory texts only provide the mechanics of classical logic design, Givone provides justifications behind these procedures to give students the understanding they need for the advanced topics they will learn about in subsequent courses. Some of the topics that the book thoroughly presents include: the simplification of Boolean expressions with Karnaugh maps, variable-entered Karnaugh maps, and the analysis and design of both clocked synchronous sequential networks and asynchronous sequential networks.

Every book contains a CD-ROM with Altera’s advanced MAX+plus II 10.1 Student Edition CAD system, as well as Multisim 2001 Textbook Edition from Electronics Workbench. An appendix and the book website provide additional resources on these software tools, as well as LogicWorks.

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Wastage of paper and ink.......2006-11-13

This book is a complete wastage of resources. The author tells you everything as if lecturing. He will talk all things that you can see and will not talk behind the scenes. After you finish one topic you need to take a break of one day, because the brain hurts. PUBLISHERS, PLEASE TAKE THIS BOOK AWAY AND PLEASE DO NOT PRINT ANOTHER BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR. Every person on the face of this earth is not supposed to be a good writer.

An Excellent Reference Book.......2005-02-24

I read the comments of the previous reviewer, and I have to agree, s/he made a very good point: this book is not an easy read. However, I'd also like to offer a bit different point of view.

I have been teaching Digital Electronics from this book for the third semester now, and so far things have been going fine. I may be a bit biased; I hand-picked this book after going through a whole host of desk copies, and compared them based on more dimensions than eharmony dot com can ever dream about... Our primary goal was to find a book, which is equally suitable both for Digital Electronics [combinational networks] and Advanced Digital Electronics [sequential networks].

In light of my experiences from the past three semesters I partly agree with the previous reviewer, and am becoming convinced that it may be more appropriate to teach these two courses from two different books, and pick an easier material for the introductory digital course. (My choice for such a book would be Katz-Borriello: Contemporaty Logic Design, 2nd edition; it also covers synchronous sequential networks well.) However, I still believe that Givone's book is an excellent reference material, particularly because of its theoretically sound, exhaustive discussion of the topics. I also believe that it's the primary responsibility of the educator to serve as an interface between students and the textbook. The textbook's responsibility is to back the instructor with all relevant material the instructor decides to use, and this book is doing an outstanding job at it.

Impressions of Digital Principles and Design.......2004-06-20

I've just completed an introductory course in Digital System Design, which requires this book. I really didn't care for this book in the least. Before I begin my explanation as to why, first let me state that I received an "A" in the course. I only mention this so that it's clear this isn't just a bitter rant due to a poor grade.

I think the main problem with this book is that it is FAR too formal. The author uses terminology from Discrete Mathematics so much that the book is really incomprehensible. The language that the author uses to describe new concepts is the sort of thing you'd expect to see in a formal proof. Doing a formal proof using Discrete Math terminology is fine, but you'd expect there to be supporting text which breaks down the concepts into more digestible language. This book doesn't do that at all. It reads like one huge, 700 page mathematical proof. I found myself reading each section over and over again trying to decipher the explanations. The sort of explanations in this book might be appropriate for a doctorate dissertation in which your audience are already experts in the field. However, this book assumes no prior knowledge from its readers and it intends to be an introduction to Digital System Design. A book like this should endeavor to convey information and introduce concepts to the reader in an easily digested manner. "Digital Principles and Design" utterly fails in this regard.

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The first edition of Principles of Verifiable RTL Design offered a common sense method for simplifying and unifying assertion specification by creating a set of predefined specification modules that could be instantiated within the designer's RTL. Since the release of the first edition, an entire industry-wide initiative for assertion specification has emerged based on ideas presented in the first edition. This initiative, known as the Open Verification Library Initiative (www.verificationlib.org), provides an assertion interface standard that enables the design engineer to capture many interesting properties of the design and precludes the need to introduce new HDL constructs (i.e., extensions to Verilog are not required). Furthermore, this standard enables the design engineer to `specify once,' then target the same RTL assertion specification over multiple verification processes, such as traditional simulation, semi-formal and formal verification tools. The Open Verification Library Initiative is an empowering technology that will benefit design and verification engineers while providing unity to the EDA community (e.g., providers of testbench generation tools, traditional simulators, commercial assertion checking support tools, symbolic simulation, and semi-formal and formal verification tools).
The second edition of Principles of Verifiable RTL Design expands the discussion of assertion specification by including a new chapter entitled `Coverage, Events and Assertions'. All assertions exampled are aligned with the Open Verification Library Initiative proposed standard. Furthermore, the second edition provides expanded discussions on the following topics:

start-up verification;
the place for 4-state simulation;
race conditions;
RTL-style-synthesizable RTL (unambiguous mapping to gates);
more `bad stuff'.

The goal of the second edition is to keep the topic current. Principles of Verifiable RTL Design, A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes, Second Edition tells you how you can write Verilog to describe chip designs at the RTL level in a manner that cooperates with verification processes. This cooperation can return an order of magnitude improvement in performance and capacity from tools such as simulation and equivalence checkers. It reduces the labor costs of coverage and formal model checking by facilitating communication between the design engineer and the verification engineer. It also orients the RTL style to provide more useful results from the overall verification process.

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has practical tips, is shallow in giving understanding.......2003-03-19

The chapter on bad stuff is useful and practical, even though it repeats parts of previous chapters. The chapter on assertion based verification is practical too. Some of the reasonings on use of "x" may be debatable. For example, the authors argued that two-state detects more problems than x injection, based on their experiences. In the text, an example was given. What the example illustrates is NOT the inherent problems with x injection but a truly bad style of coding to detect x. Thus, the example is misleading.

The chapter on formal verification is a cheat-sheet user manual for some commercial tools. It gives a couple of lines of math symbols about formal verification theory, without explanation whatsoever. In general, this chapter is too shallow for understanding the ideas behind formal verification.

In many places, the book just lists the benefits of some practices without giving reasons and details about the practices. It's very frustrating to have the thought hung in mid-air.

So if you are looking for a partial collection of tips to avoid simulation based verification problems, this book is a start. If you want a more in-depth and complete understanding in verifiable RTL design, find other books.

An excellent book for advanced users.......2002-08-07

This book presents principles drawn from very large scale designs, like microprocessor. If you are looking for a book describing testbench implementation, another book, "Writing testbenches functional verification of hdl models", is more suitable. If you are working on very large scale and complex design verification, this book will be very helpful. The discussion of simulation optimization, X/Z state, X/Zero/Random initialization during simulation is very insightful.

Out of the ordinary.......2000-04-09

If you are looking for another book describing the Verilog Language Reference Manual then this book is not for you. If, however, to are looking for an excellent set of principles to build a design and verification philosophy then I highly recommend this book. The authors have produced an RTL centric view of design emphasizing the verification process. They argue that synthesis productivity gains have now placed the verification process in the critical path and that equal attention should be giving to coding for verification as is currently given to coding for synthesis. The chapter I particularly enjoyed, entitled "Bad Stuff," provides an excellent discussion with examples on coding styles that hinder efficient verification. The author's discussion of the problems with the use of X at the RT-level, due to X-state pessimism and optimism, and the need for 2-state RTL simulation is enlightening.

Fuzzy Systems Design Principles: Building Fuzzy If-Then Rule Bases

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Fuzzy Systems Design Principles: Building Fuzzy If-Then Rule Bases
Riza C. Berkan , and Sheldon L. Trubatch
Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Press
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ASIN: 0780311515

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This exceptional guide and reference is devised for practitioners who want to employ fuzzy logic concepts in the design and deployment of actual fuzzy systems. FUZZY SYSTEMS DESIGN PRINCIPLES concentrates on the IF-THEN fuzzy algorithm, one of the most popular algorithms implemented today. The "basic fuzzy inference algorithm," the IF-THEN structure is not only applicable to many types of problems, but is also comprised of building blocks used in the development of other types of fuzzy systems used in today's electronic and software products.

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Based on the author's 20+ years of hands-on experience, this book articulates the underlying principles and practices that comprise today's digital components and systems. Karalis provides a comprehensive yet concise, fully integrated treatment of relevant analytical tools and design methodologies as applied to various integrated devices, modules and signal interactions. Coverage offers a balance of theory, application and functional level examples.

Digital Design: Basic Concepts and Principles

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Digital Design: Basic Concepts and Principles
Mohammad A. Karim , and Xinghao Chen
Manufacturer: CRC
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Much of modern digital design activities are realized using computer-aided design applications, which provide quick turnaround time with ready access to circuit synthesis and simulation applications. Integrating digital design principles with design practices using one of the industry's most popular design applications, the Xilink WebPACK, Digital Design addresses many of the challenging issues that are critical to modern digital design practices. The book provides an in-depth discussion of optical computing, neural networks, sequential arithmetic processors, and other important topics. The text also features end-of-chapter problems, worked examples, and more than 500 circuit drawings.

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